Jenn's Bookish Ramblings

If you are a book blogger heading to New York for BEA in early June, connecting with other bloggers should be on your priorities list! To assist you in completing this goal, I’ve come up with a form to collect contact information for those who are interested in meeting up. Not to worry, this list will not be shared with anyone not on the list. Additionally, I will review the list before sending out to verify the legitimacy of the individuals on the list. So, feel free to share what information you are comfortable with. Use this information to contact other bloggers who may be looking for someone to have lunch with, attend a session, standing in line for a particular signing, etc.

I will collect this data through end of the day Friday, June 1st at which time I will distribute a spreadsheet to everyone on the list. It will be in a format that will allow you to sort/edit it as you see fit.

Just to reiterate: this content will not be posted publicly, but only share the contact information you feel comfortable sharing openly. If you don’t want to share your full name, just enter your first. Don’t want to share your cell phone number? Not to worry, just share your email address.

Source: Staples eReader Department

I’m known for my obsession with creating spoof songs, songs written with lyrics other than the original. Here is my most recent, in honor of my favorite independent bookstore, One More Page Books & More

To the tune of Katy Perry’s I Kissed A Girl:

I was so lost, so full of desperation,
No bookstore to shop, no way to feed my obsession.
I wanted to find others like me,
Lovers of books, ready to spend money.

And then one day, I met Eileen.
She was opening a store, not far from me
Selling books, wine & chocolate
Could it be true? I couldn’t wait to shop it
And then the day, the bookstore opened
I was in bliss, nothing could top it!

I shopped indie and I liked it!
As a matter of fact I cannot stop it!
I shopped indie and I liked it!
You should try, you won’t regret it!

Booksellers are, full of suggestions
Name a book, get recommendations
They love to read, if they had more time
Instead they’ll sell you, their latest favorite
It may not be, a book on the Times list
But you will know, just how to cherish
A book recommendation so personalized, so real
That you will leap, skip and squeal:

I shopped indie and I liked it!
As a matter of fact I cannot stop it!
I shopped indie and I liked it!
You should try, you won’t regret it!

Each year I try to read each & every one nominated, well, at least the novels. We’ll see how well I do this year! Selections I’ve already read have a line through them.

NOVEL:

Conlon, Christopher — A Matrix Of Angels
Lamberson, Greg — Cosmic Forces
Malfi, Ronald — Floating Staircase
McKinney, Joe — Flesh Eaters
O’Neill, Gene — Not Fade Away
Thomas, Lee — The German

FIRST NOVEL:

Bird, Allyson — Isis Unbound
Jacobs, John, Horner — Southern Gods
Lee, Frazer — The Lamplighters
Roche, Thomas — The Panama Laugh
Talley, Brett J. — That Which Should Not Be

YA NOVEL:

Faherty, J. G. — Ghosts of Coronado Bay, A Maya Blair Mystery
Holder, Nancy — The Screaming Season
Kraus, Daniel — Rotters
Maberry, Jonathan — Dust & Decay
Ness, Patrick — A Monster Calls
Oppel, Kenneth — This Dark Endeavor: The Apprenticeship of Victor Frankenstein

GRAPHIC NOVEL:

Brosgol, Vera — Anya’s Ghost
Hill, Joe — Locke & Key, Volume 4
Jensen, Jeff — Green River Killer
Maberry, Jonathan — Marvel Universe vs. Wolverine
Mignola, Mike and Golden, Christopher — The Plague Ships
Moore, Alan — Neonomicon

LONG FICTION:

Calvillo, Michael Louis — 7Brains
Hodge, Brian — Roots and All
Kiernan, Caitlin — The Colliers’ Venus (1893)
Little, John R. — Ursa Major
O’Neill, Gene — Rusting Chickens
Straub, Peter — The Ballad of Ballard and Sandrine

SHORT FICTION:

Castro, Adam Troy — “Her Husband’s Hands” (Lightspeed Magazine)
King, Stephen — “Herman Wouk Is Still Alive” (The Atlantic Magazine, May 2011)
Lillie-Paetz, Ken — “Hypergraphia” (The Uninvited, Issue 1)
O’Neill, Gene — “Graffiti Sonata” (Dark Discoveries)
Saunders, George — “Home” (The New Yorker Magazine, June 13, 2011)
Warren, Kaaron — “All You Can Do Is Breathe” (Blood and Other Cravings)

SCREENPLAY:

Ball, Alan — True Blood: Spellbound (Episode #44)
Gimple, Scott M. — The Walking Dead, episode 13: “Pretty Much Dead Already”
Gimple, Scott M. — The Walking Dead, episode 9: “Save the Last One”
Goodman, Cory — Priest
Nolfi, George — The Adjustment Bureau
Sharzer, Jessica — American Horror Story, episode 12: “Afterbirth”

ANTHOLOGY:

Carbone, Tracy L. — Epitaphs
Dann, Jack and Nick Gevers — Ghosts By Gaslight
Datlow, Ellen — Blood And Other Cravings
Datlow, Ellen — Supernatural Noir
Hutton, Frank J. — Tattered Souls 2
Skipp, John — Demons: Encounters with the Devil and his Minions, Fallen Angels and the Possessed

COLLECTION:

Connolly, Lawrence C. — Voices: Tales of Horror
Fowler, Christopher — Red Gloves: The London Horrors
Kiernan, Caitlin R. — Two Worlds and In-Between
Morton, Lisa — Monsters of L.A.
Oates, Joyce Carol — The Corn Maiden and Other Nightmares
Ochse, Weston — Multiplex Fandango

NON-FICTION:

Bannatyne, Lesley Pratt — Halloween Nation: Behind the Scenes of America’s Fright Night
Crawford, Gary William/Jim Rockhill/Brian J. Showers, Eds. — Reflections in a Glass Darkly: Essays on J. Sheridan Le Fanu
Mamatas, Nick — Starve Better
Mogk, Matt — Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Zombies
Tibbetts, John C. — The Gothic Imagination
Wood, Rocky — Stephen King: A Literary Companion

POETRY COLLECTION:

Addison, Linda — How to Recognize a Demon Has Become Your Friend
Alexander, Maria — At Louche Ends: Poetry for the Decadent, the Damned & the Absinthe-Minded
Boston, Bruce — Surrealities
Clark, G.O — Shroud of Night
Simon, Marge — The Mad Hattery
Simon, Marge — Unearthly Delights